Chemists & household chemicals

[Mary Fisher]

Why are you repeating it then?

It's not necessary.

There's no point. Wine-making,as in breadmaking and lots of other processes (if you want to make a good product) can't be hurried.

Mary

[Mary Fisher]

My point was that he shouldn't begrudge the binwagon drivers their earnings, he could do that job if he wanted to.

I'm not criticising the lad, or you, but there is a lot of unjustified envy about others' pay, as I see it.

You and Spouse COULD earn a lot more than you do - we choose a different life.

Mary

[zaax]

bleach and disfectent Weed killer and diesel and the good old petrol bomb

[Huge]

Prills are no good to you. You'd have to grind it up.

[Huge]

Blimey, you don't pay any attention to Conor, do you?

[Dave Plowman (News)]

No - it's just hard to avoid him. ;-)

[Huge]

charon{huge}74: grep -i conor ~/News/KILL /Conor /h:j /Conor Turton /h:j

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Aww - what has he ever done to you? ;-)

[Chris Hodges]

I can vouch for that. Just had our 2nd bottle of blackberry from last year's crop (it popped its own cork) and it was a noticeable improvement on the first which we had in april. Haven't even bottled the apple yet (from 8 months ago).

[John Rumm]

I was highlighting that what you said was correct, but unrelated to what I was writing about...

You are just arguing for the sake of it aren't you? ;-)

There is every point, since poor sterilisation will lower the quality of the wine, not improve it. The Citric results in more copious production of SO2 and hence allows better sterilisation of your receptacles and other equipment.

[Mary Fisher]

No.

You're making unfounded assumptions aren't you?.

Sterilisation is sterilisation, there are no degrees of sterilisation. Equipment is either sterile or not.

Mary

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Think that's rather a broad statement in practice. Some viruses etc are able to withstand even an Autoclave - things like BSE.

I very much doubt home brewing equipment is sterile in the medical sense.

[Dave Liquorice]

No, it's correct. Either something is sterile or it isn't by definition.

BSE isn't a virus it's a prion.

AFAIK there is no word that means "nearly sterile" or "sterile for the purpose".

[Dave Plowman (News)]

That's why I added 'etc'. ;-)

Ok. Then it's not sterile.

[Matt]

Isn't that what Drivel's got?

;-)

[Mary Fisher]

You can't be suggesting Mad Cow Disease?

Mary

[Matt]

My mistake it a Prius, its obvious he's had the other for quite a while.

[The Natural Philosopher]

There should be.

Some bacteria can live in volcanic vents...undersea.

Sterile is an absolute word for a relative thing.

[The Natural Philosopher]

No, that's what YOU have got Mary ;-)

Drivel is suffering from delusions of competence.

[Pete C]

Hi,

Do they have internal or external beading? IIRC some of the early ones had external beading which could be pried off, and the window pane removed.

cheers, Pete.